Higher-order symmetry energy of nuclear matter and the inner edge of neutron star crusts

Abstract

The parabolic approximation to the equation of state of the isospin asymmetric nuclear matter (ANM) is widely used in the literature to make predictions for the nuclear structure and the neutron star properties. Based on the realistic M3Y-Paris and M3Y-Reid nucleon-nucleon interactions, we investigate the effects of the higher-order symmetry energy on the proton fraction in neutron stars and the location of the inner edge of their crusts and their core-crust transition density and pressure, thermodynamically. Analytical expressions for different-order symmetry energy coefficients of ANM are derived using the realistic interactions mentioned above. It is found that the higher-order terms of the symmetry energy coefficients up to its eighth-order (E${}_{sym8}$) contributes substantially to the proton fraction in $\beta$ stable neutron star matter at different nuclear matter densities, the core-crust transition density and pressure. Even by considering the symmetry energy coefficients up to E${}_{sym8}$, we obtain a significant change of about 40$\%$ in the transition pressure value from the one based on the exact equation of state. Using equations of state based on both Paris and Reid effective interactions which provide saturation incompressibility of symmetric nuclear matter in the range of 220 MeV$\le$K${}_0$$\le$270 MeV, we estimate the ranges 0.090 fm${}^{-3}$$\le$${\rho }_t$$\le$0.095 fm${}^{-3}$ and 0.49 MeV fm${}^{-3}$$\le$P${}_t$$\le$ 0.59 MeV fm${}^{-3}$ for the liquid core-solid crust transition density and pressure, respectively. The corresponding range of the proton fraction at this transition density range is found to be 0.029$\le$x${}_{p(t)}$$\le$0.032.

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